The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-12
BY ABRAHAM p. MILLEN

you express thoughts which are flow
ing into many minds at the same time,
but you seem to think that the time
has not yet come to give them publici-
ty. You say there is but One, and
all animated Nature constitutes that
Ones nervous system-the souls of
men and women are sensitive nerves
leading from external nature to the
Divine Mind.'
Looking over my manuscripts, con-
tanning thoughts dropped on paper
during the past thirty years, l find the
following: r.
Matter is solidified spirit.
The human spirit is d nerve-cell In
God.
The human family is a ganglion in
the nervous system Of the Infinite Be-
ing.
God is the Bottom Fact; the Core of
Nature; the Soul of Things; the Ulti-
mate Atom.
The Milky-way is the spinal column
of the Material Universe.
Thoughts like these have e1ahorat-
ed in articles. addresses and poems. In
AL unpublished article on Ideas" /
find this:
The Ideal systems of the past were
crude, Tut they contain the germs OF
III idea temporarily fixed aud express
ed and appearing solid. 1t is certainly
solid to material substances only. IL
is not solid to spirit. Matter may be-
only solidided spirit. The material
1t may be spirit. The Great Spirit, or
God spirit, manjfests or acts under
different forms, and the atom, ulti.
mate particle, substance, or whatever
it may 0e called, may he the same, and
only the form or manifestation differ
eOt.
Suppose we accept the statement of
the later material scientists, viz: that
what is called AL atom is only u little
center Of force. Suppose we go further
and show that force is the result of
wiU. Then we arrive at 4 philosophy
like this: An Atom is u center of force,
or u point 1T which Il will operates.
Force is will exerted 1T i given point
Or points. The Almighty will opernt.
ing ut \ point for il time produces mat
ter. When the Will, which is the
Force, is withdrawn, there is no atom,
no matter, left at that point. If this
Will should withdraw from all parts
of the material universe, there would
be u" sucl, universe.
The material scientists have furnish.
ed the spiritual philosophers some of
their b"st weapons. The above doc
trine "f atoms is one Of them. The
demonstrated porosity OF matter has
shown that matter is not solid. The
chemist assumed the s"lidity Of the
atom. bnt he also assumed ITS exist
ence. With the later philosophy the
atom is only " torce. Il number of
these forces operating at u given place
appear ''s"lid," because they rtsis,
what comes against them.
The New Philosophy. the Philosophy
If the Future. will be ~ an Ideal Sys-
tenn vastly broader AMI deeper than
the old system Ut the schools; (:::) above
this u SYSTEM If Panth+ism similar to
the old, but much broader and truer.
This will teach U) that there is but
ono Mind and one Will; (2) that all in
telligence is the action of this one
Mind through different forms; (3) that
all force is the action of this one Will.
The Professor who rises to teach this
philosophy in the University OF the
Future will say:
There IL nut one Snbst ance, with
spiritual and material expression or
manifestation. Find substance and
you find God. Find the BOTTOM Fac,
anywhere in nature and you find the.
Being for whom the ages have search
ed. Feel Force and you feel the will
Of God. Matter is simply solidifi-d
spirit. and spirit is God, living and act
ing. Finite wills are points where the
One will acts. M creature can will
until some power back of it wills that
it shall will.
In an address delivered in March
last at Grand Opera House Hall. H.
New York, before the conference of
TIE First Society of Spiritualists. these
ideas were still more fully elaborated.
AN abstract of this address WAS pub
lishrd in The Re!igio- Philosophers!
Journal Of April II. One paragraph
puts the same thoughts thus:
The Future Religion will probably
be HI enlarged Pantheism. teaching
that there is but One Being in the uni
verse, expressing himself in millions of
forms. hearing through all ears, seeing
through all eyes. feeling through all
nerves. This Pantheism will teach
that God is the bottom or underlying
fact, the bottom principle in every
thing. Touch bottom and you touch
God. This system will teach that
God is the core Of things. Find the
core in anything and you find God.
This system will teach further that
God is the Ultimate Atom, aud that
the assumed atom of the chemist is
only 4 point where the Supreme Will
acts.
Still further. in some blank verse
written some years ago (unpublished)
tho same thoughts are thus expressed,
under the title of
Twas not, I am rot to be. lam:
simply am, ever, always, forever.
Before and after are unknown to me-;
et yS thrSaSn ALL feel th,rou9h ali ~! ALL
All worlds, all plants, all animals am,
Taking all forms my spirit to express
Through all eyes seeing, hearing through all
And feeling through all nerves in all my forms.
All wills expressed in forms rest On my will,
AS pillows rest upon bOundless sea.
lam the Universe, and Time and Space:
AND hsight and depth aud length and breadth
Are not to me. fl, and bound all things,
Leaving no room for anything besides:
Each individual spirit that appears
Is nerve cell In me- Each family,
Or type, or class, Is nerve group along
My infinite nervous system. am ONE
In soul or essence. and have no parts,
Save In exrresst on or exterior forms.
And am conscious equally through all
Conscious In every atom as in soul.
am the Atom-I am Force and Will:
Ny Will is Force, and Force the Atom is.
And hence am the Atom. Matter is
Spirit sOldifed, objectifled.
am the Bottom Fact in Natures forms;
am the Core Of Things the Soul of Souls,
am existence, The Being am;
the All-PerSOn, the Eternal Self.
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